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Award-winning team of Experts

We are a passionate team of quantitative strategists, wealth management specialists and artificial intelligence experts with over 60 years of combined expertise. We came together to change the shape of modern financial services.

Management Team

Nathan Stevenson

Founder, CEO

Nathan is an experienced entrepreneur with a background in quantitative finance and enterprise architecture.

He began his career at CQS and BNP Paribas London, and later joined the Johannesburg Stock Exchange as an enterprise architect managing large scale, international technology projects with NYSE, CME and LSEG.

Nathan hails from South Africa, and has previously co-founded two other companies (Matchpoint Music and HotelsByDay).

Scott Mixer

Head of Strategic Clients and Business Development, Americas

Scott is a wealth and investment management specialist with 12-years experience at Lehman Brothers, Barclays and Credit Suisse before joining ForwardLane in 2016. Scott has demonstrated success in strategic client development and cross-bank initiatives, partnerships/alliances, capital markets introductions and middle-market investment banking relationships. He has extensive experience with practice management across international sales organizations and managing business risk, operational risk, conflicts and independence for strategic partnerships.

David Magee

Head of EMEA

David has over 25 years experience in Financial Services with enriched understanding of advisory businesses and their challenges.

A proven executive leader highly experienced in building, developing and running large scale Financial Advisory teams. Brings a depth of knowledge in client engagement both B2B and B2B2C with the core focus on improving the customer experience.

Skilled in the behavior and business change required to meet the demands imposed by regulation within the modern wealth industry.

Shay Krauss

Head of Engineering at ForwardLane Inc.

With B.S in Computer Science and 20 years of SDLC experience in various roles starting as a developer and evolving into other roles such as technical lead, product development director and now Head of Engineering at ForwardLane. Shay has outstanding success delivering complex technology solutions to various fortune 500 companies including AT&T, Sprint, Allstate and MetLife.

Data Science and Technology Team

Ilya Galkevich

Senior Project Manager

Master’s degree in computer science and mathematics Certified Scrum Master With 16 years experience in IT his career starting from developer to team lead, senior project manager and head of development department with over 80 developers, Ilya has vast experience of managing remove and distributed development teams.

ALEXANDER SIZOV

AI LEAD, RESEARCH SCIENTIST

With PhD in Data Science and 10 years of Software Development in various roles starting as a developer, then technical lead, head of development department, and 8 years of University practice as a lecturer of Computer Science courses Alexander came to Data Science 7 years ago and have worked on various projects delivering cutting-edge solutions with Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing approaches.

VLADIMIR SHEBUNIAYEU

LEAD DEVELOPER

10 years of Development and team management experience in various type of projects from startups to mature products in E-Commerce, Social Networks, Messengers, Gambling, SEO, Web application, Data Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, Embedding systems

John Stevenson

Senior Business Analyst

During the 10 years of experience as a Business Analyst, John has focused on the Finance Industry working with Mobile Banking Applications, Retail and Investment Bank Processes, Independent ATM network platforms, Advertising and Online Gaming. Certified in the most recent methodologies he is current and provides expert input to the requirements and software development processes.

Matt Williams

Solution Architect

Combining 15+ years as a full stack Data/Search Architect with a B.A. in Cognitive Science, Matt has delivered successful enterprise algorithmic, machine-learning, profile matching and cognitive systems across a wide variety of Fortune 100 companies, including LexisNexis, WyndhamWorldwide, Adobe Systems and now ForwardLane.

Sergey Privalov

System Architect & Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer with 15 years experience in the IT sphere. I have skills and experience in the technical team leading, design and building system architecture from the scratch. I have solid grasp experience in the Java(TM) platform, .Net framework, Groovy, Ruby, Ruby on Rails framework and various other technologies and frameworks.

Elliott Noma

Data Scientist

Pioneer in Computing of DTSS Operating System and currently working on the frontiers of Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and IoT.

5 years of software development experience as front and backend software developer. Master’s degree in information systems and technologies in economic

ALEXANDER KRAPIWNICKI

LEAD QA ENGINEER

6 years of QA and team management experience in various types of projects from startups to mature products in E-Commerce, FinTech, Instant Messengers, Health Care, GameDev, Social Networks

Master degree in Computer Science, Finance and Banking

KATSIARYNA KOSHALEVA

SYSTEM ANALYST

Seven years of professional experience as Business Systems Analyst in software companies. Involved in the process of detailed system design I take a challenging role: give an effective and efficient solutions that help achieve the goals in business and improve product market position

SERGEY TITOVICH

FULL-STACK DEVELOPER

Full-stack developer with over 4 years experience. Experienced in such technologies as Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Python Django, Angular.js, Ember.js and etc. Master’s degree in computer science.

Auxiliary Team

Dr. Pavel Bulanov

Head of Research

PhD Computer Science

15 years experience

AI specialization

Rui Xiao

Quantitative Research

MS Quantitative Finance, Rutgers University

Scott Hall

Head of Sales (BCH)

20+ years of technical sales expertise to financial institutions

Tim Tillman

Wealth Sales (BCH)

20+ years executive technology sales in wealth management

Advisory Board

Frank Meehan

Co-founder and CEO at SmartUp.io

The micro-learning knowledge platform for a smartphone generation - used by startups, business schools and corporates.

Co-founder and Partner at SparkLabs Global Ventures and SparkLabs Accelerator Group

A global seed stage fund which has 63 investments in companies based in US, Asia, Europe and Israel.

15 years of research and investment management experience from a career that began at DLJ and culminated in analyzing and investing a $1.7 billion portfolio of leveraged loans, bonds and CDS positions spread across the consumer products, food, supermarket and retail sectors as Director of Research for the Tradable Credit Group at Ares Management where she was also Co-Chair and architect of the firm’s Global Markets Investment committee.

Mark Rodrigues

Board Member to FinTech Firms Advisor to VC and PE firms on FinTech

30 years Global experience in the financial services industry for over 30 years playing an number of an different roles - from consultant and investor, to technologist and business builder.

MBA from Harvard and a BA from Yale, published by a range of financial and tech publications like the Wall Street Journal, American Banker and Risk Magazine.

Involved in charitable causes like Room to Read and Sadlers Wells

Darren Duffy

Thomson Reuters – Head of Wealth Management Business Solutions

Strategy, Business Development and Wealth Management expert and thought leader